Buffalo River pt. 2

July 4th, 2009 by bturnip

This is the continuation of the Buffalo River posts, part 1 is [here]…

map from http://www.buffaloriver.com/rivermap.aspx
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Buffalo River pt. 1

July 1st, 2009 by bturnip

Me and my buddies took a late June trip up to the Buffalo River.
Our three day route was to take us between Mt. Hersey and Gilbert:
buffaloriver.com
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Walk it off!

June 23rd, 2009 by bturnip

Caught an elbow reaching in trying to poke a rebound away:
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Raised bed garden- first fruit!

June 17th, 2009 by bturnip

Gabe did the honors of plucking our first garden vegetable today. We chopped up the banana pepper, it was full of fresh-from-the-garden goodness:

gabe

Numeric validation with Oracle regexp_like

June 17th, 2009 by bturnip

PROBLEM:
Identify records where there is non-numeric values for a particular column.

SOLUTION:


select SOME_COL
from SOME_TBL
where regexp_like (SOME_COL,'^[^[:digit:]]’)
;

Obviously this implies that maybe the field should be a NUMBER datatype to start with, but sometimes what we want, what we should have, and what we actually have are not the same thing.

Garden progress

June 2nd, 2009 by bturnip

Our little raised bed garden experiment is moving along nicely. The tomato plants have grown up enough to warrant some bamboo trellis support:

[Raised bed with trellis]

raised bed with trellis

The cell phone picture doesn’t show a lot of detail, but the tomatoes are down the middle, and that is basil up front right and the tall stuff flowering in the back is garlic, with some onions inbetween.